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Five hundred fliers were left on the doorsteps around the community. The meeting is a way for people to let out their built-up frustrations and to propose ideas on ways to prevent crime.

“I think our neighborhood is getting worse and worse as far as crime,” Charles Walton said. “Cause I’ve been living in this neighborhood for 35 years and I see the changes. It’s getting awful.”

Walton is not the only resident who feels that something has to be done to address crime in the neighborhood.

“It has gotten to be very unsafe around here,” Chris Webb said. “I’ve got a soon-to-be 9-year-old that I can’t even let play outside.”

Webb plans on highlighting several issues before community leaders, including graffiti painted on garage doors in the alley behind his house on Denmark Street.

Webb said someone fired shots outside his neighbor’s house Sunday during a get-together.

Residents said shots were also fired early Monday morning on West Evelyn Street. A car window was shattered as a result. It’s in the same location of a shooting early Saturday morning where two people were killed.

“It’s getting so terrible that I am thinking about selling out and moving away from here,” Walton said. “Although I am right at 75 years old.”

Residents say the root of the problem is drugs.

Like Webb and Walton, Pastor Corey Nelson will walk through the doors on Beecher Street Monday hoping to walk out with solutions.

“We’re interested to hear the neighbors' take because the community is scared,” Nelson said.

Residents will have three minutes to speak at the meeting after first signing up.